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stolons

stolons is the plural of stolon.

Meaning of stolon

Noun

stolon (plural stolons)

  1. A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
  2. A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
  3. A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.

Questions about stolons

What is stolons the plural of?
Stolons is the plural of stolon.

Words near stolons in the dictionary

  1. stoloniferones
  2. stoloniferous
  3. stoloniferously
  4. stoloniform
  5. stolonlike
  6. stolons
  7. stolovaya
  8. stolovayas
  9. Stolp
  10. stolperstein
  11. stolpersteine

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